Ron Says…

” I’ve taken it awfully easy on my kids on processing—awfully easy. I run an entirely different system. I’ve noticed some various behavior patterns in my life and usually use those.

” And that is to say, I always treat my children with courtesy, particularly in front of one another. … As a result, these kids are better and better friends with one another. Well, this is very fortuitous because, actually, their—most association is with one another. And they are very polite. They’re very polite to one another. They’re very polite to people quite ordinarily. If you’ve ever met them, they’re very interesting from this standpoint. Well, that is merely because one is polite to them, see? You’re just counting on the reaction.

” Now, this is pretty good—merely establishing patterns that they’re happy with, see? Now, that’s processing in itself. That’s processing through livingness and setting some sort of a pattern where they can get along with each other. Now, they are in an interesting state of mind with regard to processing. They will immediately show up if they have hurt themselves. Now, all kids come around and say, “Mama, I’ve cut my finger,” or something of this sort, and, “Kiss it and make it well.” Well, this manifestation is a lot different with these three kids. They’ll come in to myself at once, you see, and get an assist. And they’re perfectly happy with it, and the assists are working on them, by the way, faster and faster. So that sometimes it’s only a five- or six-command assist, don’t you see? And they’re perfectly happy then; they know that the score is there.

” We very carefully open up and close sessions and bridge commands, by the way—much more carefully than I do with one of you guys. All right. Now, raising children with the idea that something can be done about it, you see? Now, somewhere up along the line they ought to kind of start to get Clear. They see the things in the usual family environment that cause trouble, you see? They see these things being handled, so they get the idea that these things can be handled, don’t you see? You’re getting another viewpoint entirely. Now, that viewpoint, all by itself makes another breed of cat than a Clear. It makes another breed of cat than anything else. It has an effective attitude toward existence. Now, I think, just as I’ve recounted it, simply because I know these kids better than other people’s kids—but I know other Scientologist’s kids pretty well, too. They always usually ask for me if they come about someplace. They want to see Ron. And they want to come in and give me a smile or something of the sort. And I have a good look at them as they go along, you know? And I see them over long periods of time. I see them sporadically, you know? And most of them are doing just fine. But I think they have a different viewpoint than children have ever had before. I think, by the time they get to be about twelve—ten or twelve or something like this, you could just whomp into them and clear them up, probably, in a few hours. And that would be the end of that—providing you hadn’t made them allergic to processing by forcing processing on them, you see? And providing you had run good 8-C on them.

“Fascinating, the handling of kids, because you’re handling a tremendous amount of experience. And about the best thing you can possibly do is set up a model for them—a model of positiveness, a model of politeness. And you set up a good model for them, why, you’ve got it made.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture “E-Meter: Identification and Association: Question and Answer Period” delivered on 24 January 1958. This lecture may be found in 19th American ACC lectures.

Ron Says…

“But seldom have I ever seen a child taken for a child, very seldom. It doesn’t occur to people that the child is a live, living, thinking organism possessed initially of enormous self-determinism. It is the first goal of the normal adult in this society to break, utterly and forever, if possible, the self-determinism of the child.

“I’ve become convinced of this by listening to the cant that goes on around, ‘Oh now, elders know best. You must do this. Now, just mind.’ Now, I will admit that a child is noisy, and that a child breaks things, or a child, because of lack of data and coordination, may be a bit trying on those who have a blocked second dynamic. But I have found this to be the case: that any child who was engaged in breaking things, in being bad, was in a high state of revolt.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from lecture
“Processing Children”
15 July 1950

He was a young man, 21 years old. I could tell he was really trying to learn and he wanted to get better but the sadness and the weight of his troubles clouded present time so darkly that he had trouble seeing any goodness in his life. After the seminar he came up and thanked me for coming. I asked him what he had done that got him into trouble and he tearfully told me about pushing his wife. Now he was in jail. It wasn’t fair; he was sorry, he wanted to make something good out of his life. He didn’t want to be like his parents.

The last time he saw his dad the boy had gotten into trouble for letting the air out of his dad’s tires on the car. Seems like a bad thing for him to have done, but from the viewpoint of a kid it was a good way to stop his dad from going to the drug dealer for his next heroin fix. His dad made it to the dealer anyway and consequently also made it back into jail. His mom is in jail now too. The kid didn’t want to be like that and now here he is. Where is any hope for a decent life?

My passion is to help and to give people something that will help. I had the inmates doing examples and simple drills about fulfilling their obligations. They were into it; it was a noisy active course room where they were having fun learning something new. About ten minutes before I was done an Officer from the jail motioned from the back that he needed to say something. I let him interrupt.

He announced that the nurse was here to give the inmates their medications.

What is this? I couldn’t believe it. About half of the group of 60 men went out of the room like little kids getting an ice cream treat and stood in line while the nurse dispensed their medications. They want to believe that the meds will help them. While they were out I applauded the remaining men for taking care of themselves without medications. A few minutes later the others returned; quiet, calm, subdued, and numbed. How can they learn if they are drugged while studying? How can a person take charge of his life if he is in a drug haze? Where is help for a decent life?

There is hope. There is help. Something can be done about it.

Criminon is that hope. It offers the inmates a chance to sort out their life using the common sense guide laid out in a booklet by L. Ron Hubbard called THE WAY TO HAPPINESS. It contains powerful lessons that can help anyone improve their life.

My friend who runs the rehabilitation program in the jail met me after the seminar to get 100 applications to sign up the inmates for the course. There is hope. There is help. And there are many good people working to make things better.

Find out how easy it is to help by going to www.Criminon.org. Something can be done about it! You can help.

ML,

Carol Kingsley

Era un uomo giovane, 21 anni. Vedevo che davvero stava cercando di imparare e che voleva migliorare, ma la tristezza e il peso dei suoi problemi rendevano il presente così cupo che aveva difficoltà a riconoscere la bontà nella sua vita. Dopo il seminario si avvicinò e mi ringraziò per essere venuta. Gli chiesi cosa avesse fatto per mettersi nei guai e tra le lacrime mi disse di aver spintonato sua moglie. Ora era in prigione. Non era giusto; gli dispiaceva, voleva fare qualcosa di buono nella sua vita. Non voleva essere come i suoi genitori.
L’ultima volta che vide suo padre il ragazzo si era messo nei guai per aver sgonfiato i pneumatici della macchina di suo padre. Sembra una brutta cosa, ma dal punto di vista del ragazzo era un buon modo per fermare suo padre dall’andare dallo spacciatore per la sua prossima dose di eroina. Suo padre andò comunque dallo spacciatore e successivamente tornò anche in carcere. Anche sua madre ora era in prigione. Il ragazzo non voleva essere come loro, ed eccolo qui. Dov’è la speranza di una vita decente?
La mia passione è quella di aiutare e dare alla gente qualcosa che li aiuterà. Feci fare ai detenuti degli esempi e dei semplici esercizi sull’adempimento dei loro obblighi. Lo stavano proprio facendo; era un’aula chiassosa e attiva in cui si stavano divertendo e imparavano qualcosa di nuovo dal corso. Circa dieci minuti prima che finissi un Ufficiale del carcere fece cenno dal retro che doveva dire qualcosa. Lo lasciai interrompere.
Annunciò che l’infermiera era lì per dare ai detenuti i loro farmaci.
Cos’era questo? Non riuscivo a crederci. Circa metà di quel gruppo di 60 uomini uscirono dalla stanza come dei ragazzini che andassero a prendere un gelato e si misero in fila mentre l’infermiera dispensava loro i medicinali. Vogliono credere che quei farmaci li aiuteranno. Mentre loro erano fuori, lodai quelli rimasti nell’aula per farcela da soli senza farmaci. Pochi minuti dopo gli altri tornarono, tranquilli, calmi, sommessi e storditi. Come possono imparare se sono drogati mentre studiano? Come può una persona prendersi responsabilità della sua vita se è annebbiato dalla droga? Dov’è l’aiuto per una vita decente?
La speranza c’è, l’aiuto c’è, si può fare qualcosa a riguardo.
Criminon è quella speranza. Offre ai detenuti la possibilità di mettere ordine nella loro vita utilizzando la guida basata sul buonsenso contenuta in un libro chiamato La via della felicità, di L. Ron Hubbard. Il libro contiene una lezione potente che può aiutare chiunque a migliorare la propria vita.
Il mio amico che dirige il programma di riabilitazione in prigione mi incontrò dopo il seminario per far firmare 100 domande ai detenuti per il corso. La speranza c’è. L’aiuto c’è. E ci sono molte brave persone che lavorano per migliorare le cose.
Scopri su www.Criminon.org come è facile aiutare. Si può fare qualcosa a riguardo! Tu puoi aiutare.
Con affetto,
Carol Kingsley
Sull’autore

Ron Says…

“But once in a while I will get down on my knees to a little old three year old and I’ll say, ‘Hey, what did you do in your last life, bud?’ And he’ll look at me … ‘Who wants to know?’ And by the time they’re four it’s usually been beaten out of them so they can forget with glorious abandon. But take any three, four months old baby, and if you refuse to credit their noncommunication with you, you can go into easy communication with.

“The funniest thing I ever saw was a two months old baby that couldn’t understand a word of anything, didn’t pay any attention to anything or anybody, but every time you picked this little baby up and said, ‘Well, I think we’ll keep you around,’ the baby would say, ‘Sigh!’ — never sighed otherwise.

“And you can do that to almost any kid—pick them up and say, ‘Well, here’s a good one. Think we’ll keep him around. We need him.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from The Unification Congress lecture
“Communication and Problems”

Welcome to the next installment of the letter from the C/S. My name is Greg Smith, new OT VIII, Class VI Auditor, Grad V C/S, Snr C/S of Mace Kingsley Family Center and as of last week, full Basics Books & Lectures Completion! Yes, thank you, it was incredible, everyone has to do it as soon as possible.

This issue has a very interesting and vital topic. It is “Why should we audit kids?”

Right off the bat, some LRH on the subject:

“Well one of the solutions to this has to do with the fact that if you were to take the present time age, probably between six and twelve and straighten it out, Scientology would have won, hands down in about 15 years.”

—L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from The Factors Lectures
pg 174, transcript book #1

Wow! What a datum—speaks for itself. Even more profound:

“Save the Child and you save the nation. If, in the course of the next fifteen years, Scientologists were to specialize in the Group Processing of children, it might well follow that all of the goals of Scientology would thereby be realized. Thus, by processing children between the ages of six and ten, we would achieve in fifteen years a sanity and alertness never before obtained in that portion of the populace between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-six, the age bracket which contains the energy and influence most strikingly felt by a civilization. Child Scientology could very well be, in terms of practice, the most important single field of endeavor in the science. So used, Scientology, without other addresses or assistances, might well bring about the condition of world peace if only by eradicating through the restoration of sanity the enthusiasm of youth for the sham glory of war.

“Therefore we address here a subject which is broader than ‘what will I do to cure Johnny’s sneezes.’ Whether or not we are interested in those sneezes, whether or not we have tolerance or intolerance for children, whether or not we care to give time to the problem of child adjustment and sanity, each and every one of us who has a vested interest in the continuation of Earth and man should be willing to invest some of his industry in the investigation and application of the group processing of children.”

—L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from Child Scientology
Tech Vol II, pg 37

I don’t know about you but those words give me goose bumps! A very simple plan which is totally doable for every parent.

Remember that when recounting your daily dose of entheta from the talking head TV news shows, there is a simple handling laid out by LRH — get your kids in session and keep them rolling!

The overall message is: Lets get your kids on service, here, or at your local orgs and missions. The planet and the universe awaits us!

Okay, signing off once again. Stay in touch with your wins and questions I hope to see you all soon!

Love,
Greg Smith
Senior Case Supervisor
Mace-Kingsley Family Center